NEWS IN BRIEF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14926, 26 February 1912, Page 8

NEWS IN BRIEF.

This occupants of .the*police cells last night comprised, • five men wrested for drunkenness, another for theft, and two taken into custody on charges of lunacy. The fourth annual meeting of the subscribers and friends of the Auckland Kindergarten Association is to be held in the lecture ball of the Training College on Thursday afternoon. At the meeting Lady Islington will present the diplomas to .successful students. ! The Rev. W. E. Gillarn asks us ;to acknowledge further donations to the Funnell Relief Fund, as" follows: Duty." £5; Licensed Carriers' Association (additional), £2 Is 6d; collected by Mr. Frank Rose, £1 3 3 6d; Mrs. J. Neil!, £1; R.G., 10s; A. McDonaldd, 2s 6d. A collection was made in Timaru .on Saturday (says a Press Association message) to raise funds for the ambulance brigade, 'owartl the cost of a hall and for general purposes. It realised. £145, about the same amount as was received last year. The country collections were not included in that total. The average attendance for the past month at the schools under the jurisdiction of the Newton Schools Committee is as follows: —Newton West, 770; Newton Last, 868; Grey Lynn,'.'426. A special meeting of the committee will be held tomorrow evening, to ditcuss the question of the earlier school hour? now in operation at various schools. Fourteen days' notice has been given the employees on the Commonwealth oil works at Newnes, New South Wales, that the works will close down. The reason given if. that the present industrial conditions render it impossible to continue operations. A new record high jump for a horse under saddle is claimed for Landlock, a jumper performing in the Eroni Circus at Wonthaggi, Victoria. Landlock, ridden by Gforge Eroni, who weighed Bst 61b in the saddle, cleared 7ft 2Jin. The length, of the horse's run was only 23ft.